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Ron Howard Plans to Return to Acting When Time Allows

NEW YORK–Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard may accept an acting role when he can take a break from his directing career, he said during a talk at the Tribeca Film Festival.

“I would kind of like to,” he said in answer to a question from “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams, who interviewed him before an audience on Saturday. The interview is available as a podcast on New York radio station WNYC’s website.

Howard, who has directed such movies as “Cocoon,” “Apollo 13” and “The Da Vinci Code,” said he had been offered acting roles by filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen and Martin Scorsese in recent years but did not have time to do them because he was going from one film project to another. “One of these days, I’m going to make the time.”